UNDERSTANDING THATCHER HATRED
B-BBC contributor Alan notes;
"Another explanation for why the 'right-on' Lefty liberals in the BBC hate Maggie Thatcher and are pro Islam...and it has a nice symmetry...because it also gives them another reason for disliking Jewish people even more... Thatcher admired them:
'Thatcher had no patience for anti-Semitism. “I simply did not understand it,” Thatcher wrote in her memoirs. Indeed, she found “some of [her] closest political friends and associates among Jews.” “In the thirty-three years that I represented Finchley [a constituency in London], I never had a Jew come in poverty and desperation to one of my town meetings… I often wished that Christians would take closer note of the Jewish emphasis on self-help and acceptance of personal responsibility.” * Aghast that a golf club in her district consistently barred Jews from becoming members, she publicly attacked her own party members for supporting the policy. The Jews of Finchley were “her people,” Thatcher remarked – certainly much more so than the wealthy land barons that dominated her party. * In her desire to change and modernize Britain, Thatcher surrounded herself with bright Jewish advisors: Keith Joseph, Alfred Sherman, David Young, Nigel Lawson, Leon Brittan, Victor Rothschild, Malcolm Rifkind, David Wolfson, David Hart, and others.'
SELECTIVE BLINDNESS?
A B-BBC reader draws our attention to this...
"A talk on sharia and human rights by NSS Council Member Anne Marie Waters' at Queen Mary University of London was cancelled at the last moment because of an Islamist who made serious threats against everyone there.
... before it started, a man entered the lecture theatre, stood at the front with a camera and filmed the audience. He then said that he knew who everyone was, where they lived and if he heard anything negative about the Prophet, he would track them down."A search of BBC News site returned no hits for Anne Marie Waters. One can imagine what would have been reported had the aggressor been 'Christian' and the victim Muslim?"
BIASED BBC EAST MIDLANDS
Rather fascinating case leading to an apology from BBC East Midlands for this;
"Back in January 2010, on the second day of the book injunction trialin Lisbon, BBC East Midlands reporter Mike O' Sullivan asked the former Judiciary Police coordinator Gonçalo Amaral if his book was hurting the McCanns, Amaral's answer was "Não, fale com os McCann", which literally translated means "No, speak with the McCanns".
In what appeared to be a pathetic attempt to smear Amaral's character, Mike O'Sullivan, who clearly doesn't know Portuguese, decided to bleep Amaral's reply (see the above video at 0:30) and broadcast to the world that Amaral had said "F*ck the McCanns". Though several other UK, Portuguese, Spanish reporters were present at the book banning trial Mike O'Sullivan was the only one who made that (intentional?) assumption. It took 16 months and severalcomplaints to the BBC complaints department, to the PCC, and toOfcom for the BBC to finally admit that Mike O' Sullivan was wrong [see bellow] and that Gonçalo Amaral reply was twisted, however no formal apology was issued."
LABOUR 1 CITY O
Oh my. BBC favourite Chuka Umunna seemed almost embarrassed when the issue of RBS CEO Stephen Hester's rejection of the Bonus to which he was contractually entitled was introduced as "Labour 1, City 0." The BBC has done everything possible to portray this decision by Mr Hester as some sort of "victory" for Miliband - remarkable when one considers which political party put in place the circumstances which lead to the Bonus concerned! Umunna advances the current war on capitalism and the BBC does nor challenge his spurious commentary. For example, towards the end of the interview, he moans about "other" public sector workers having to take a cut.What about this then, BBC? Some bonus payments more equal than others, perhaps?
BLACK SUSTAINABILITY
American Thinker neatly nails here the Nazi roots that underpin the insidious moonshine about sustainable development. There's been a seamless evolution pioneered by actual Nazis who escaped the Nurmeberg gallows in the ideas that say we need to get back to nature and stop doing nasty things with fossil fuels. The heirs of these lunatics are now enthroned in the fascist kleptocracy that calls itself the UN. As their latest assault on the enterprise and economic development that has improved the lives of billions who live on the planet, the sinisterly-named High Level Panel on Sustainability has published today a report which, if adopted by the Rio Summit this year, could lead to the systematic dismantling of civilized living, including the ending of all subsidies on fossil fuel. Richard Black, of course, does not see a problem. He sings the report's praises with unmoderated enthusiasm, rounding it all off with an ecstatic quote from the Stakeholder Forum, a bunch of eco-crazed nutters who are led by one Felix Dodds, who claims his many credentials include "writing for the BBC website". How very apt.
Responding To A Defender Of The Indefensible
This is regarding a comment from Dez on an open thread which had already dropped off the main page by the time I noticed it. I haven't had time to put together the response his comment deserves, and since I think there is an important point to be made here, I'm making it a main post rather than continuing the discussion in the middle of an old thread.
A week ago on a previous Open Thread, John Horne Tooke commented in response to a criticism of BBC reporting by "As I See It" that the BBC's biased coverage of the US had convinced his college-educated daughter that Republicans "do not believe in science". It was on Page 7 of this Open Thread (Js-kit/Echo won't allow linking directly to a comment).
That's obviously about either Creationsim or Warmism, or both, on which the BBC has form. Basically this is based on the assumption that all Republicans are "climate deniers" and Christians who believe that the Earth is 6000 years old. The BBC has declared that skepticism that human activity is the driving factor in Global Warming is "anti-science", and so all Republicans get tarred with that epithet, even though there are plenty who buy into Warmism. As for Creationsim, people like Justin Webb and Nicky Campbell (R5L Sept. 8, 2011) have conflated a belief in God as Creator (a very broad term) with the belief that the Earth is only 6000 years old, and suggested that, for example, both Sarah Palin and Rick Perry are unfit for high public office because of it. In the case of JHT's daughter, she got it from Chris Evans. There's probably also something there about opposition to embryonic stem-cell research being anti-science. It's easy for the BBC audience to assume that this is the case for all Republicans, since the Beeboids themselves keep reinforcing that opinion. In short, biased BBC reporting, along with constant partisan attacks from BBC Light Entertainment personalities, forms incorrect opinions.
So I extrapolated from that to a pet peeve of mine, and replied that if JHT's daughter also thought that the Tea Party movement was driven by crypto-racism, he'd know whom to blame. I was of course referring to the BBC US President, Mark Mardell, along with the fact that the majority of BBC reporting about the Tea Party movement has suggested that opposition to the President was based more on the color of his skin than on any policies. There's plenty of evidence for this, which I'll get to in due course. Dez disagreed with me. His comment in full is below the fold.
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